Are They The Wind Beneath Our Wings?

Stan Brock dropped out of school at age 16, followed his parents from England to British Guiana

, herded cattle and became co-host of "Wild Kingdom" - a 1960's-1980's television program. When he was injured on a ranch in the Amazon rainforest, he was 350 miles from a doctor. Although he recovered on his own, he got a pilot's license and a small plane to bring medical care to the people and animals he worked with. In 1985 he started the nonprofit "Remote Area Medical". As of 2012 the all-volunteer group has held more then 660 clinics worldwide that provided free health care to 500,000 people. Not bad for an "indigent C.E.O.".

Lenny Robinson is a 48-year-old father of three. In 2007 he sold his industrial cleaning business he'd started in high school and became Batman - complete with $5,000 custom-made Batman outfit and $250,000 black Lamborghini Batmobile. No, Robinson didn't have a midlife crisis. He visits ill children in hospitals throughout Maryland and Washington, giving away $25,000 worth of Batman souvenirs that he autographs. Each time Robinson wears the 40-pound outfit he loses 5-6 pounds of water weight; but what he "gains" are smiles from the children, whom he calls the real superheroes.

Jake Wood, a 28-year-old ex-Marine, went to Haiti in 2010 to help with earthquake relief. In response to his Facebook post, 7 other men went with him. Over the next 3 weeks more than 60 volunteers joined them and set up triage centers. In 2012 Woods heads a nonprofit with more than 1,400 volunteers - 80% being military veterans - and has conducted 14 missions including an earthquake in Chile, the flooding in Pakistan and the tornados in Alabama and Missouri. Wood's group is called Team Rubicon - "crossing the Rubicon" meaning passing a point of no return. However, Team Rubicon returns.

Then there's Paul Sammut, a 25-year-old engineer. During the day he researches and builds underwater robots and vehicles. In his spare time he invented an alarm clock for those reluctant to get up. There's no snooze button. If you unplug it, a battery takes over; and as wake-up time approaches, you can't reset the alarm time. To stop its clanging you have to go into the kitchen or a bathroom and punch the day's date into a telephone-style keypad. Of course, you could stop the alarm by smashing the clock; but because it costs $350, that itself would be "alarming".

by: Knight Pierce Hirst

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